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FORECAST Served By Leased Wires of the Wilmington and vicinity—Partly cloudy i UNITED PRESS I to cloudy today with occasional rains in j morning, colder in afternoon and night: ____ “ Sunday fair and colder. ”* : I ASSOCIATED PRESS ? With Complete Coverage of - State and National Nfrwa VoiTsO—NO. 70. WILMINGTON, N. C„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1947 -^-ESTABliSHEn i«7~ Trumans Aide Charles S. Murphy (above) of Wallace, has been named admini strative assistant to President rrnman. He has served as as sistant legislative counsel for the senate since 1934. (AP Wire Photo )■ _ BOYD PREDICTS FREIGHT BATTLE Tampa Action Involves Wilmington In ICT Hearing A fight to the finish at the forth coming Interstate Commerce Commission hearing into a com plaint by Tampa, Fla., interests against current freight rates in and out of that city was predict ed yesterday by Henry E. Boyd, executive agent of the Wilmington Port Traffic association. The filing of the complaint by the Florida group seeking reduc tion in rates at the Tampa port to bring them into line with those of Wilmington and other East Coast ports named the Aberdeen and Rockfish railroad and 221 other railway companies in the action. The group seeking commission action in Washington in the near future is composed of the Tampa Traffic association, Tampa Cham ber of Commerce, Hillsborough County port authority, County of Hillsborough and the City of Tam pa. Boyd predicted that two years would be required to settle the case and said the hiring of high-^ powered legal talent would no ' (Continuefl on Page 2, Col. 7) BUILDING PERMIT GRANTED TO ACL installation Of Two Eleva tors At Estimated Cost Of $56,000 Reported The only building permit of any consequence issued by the city in the year 1946 was the granting of permission to the Atlantic Coast Line to install two elevators in the firm’s “C” building at a cost of S56.000, city building Inspector Gil bert F. Morton revealed yesterday. The issuance of permits during the first half of the current fiscal year, however, showed a definite upgrade over the number granted in a similar period the previous >'ear, he said as 600 were issued from July 1 to December 31, 1946 as against 1000 the previous fiscal year. Outstanding among the permits granted was one to the Garver Manufacturing company at 13th and Marstellar streets, with the hnal cost for construction at that »te estimated at around $200„000. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley W EN DE OUt 'OMAM 6IT r PUS5IN' AT ME, L.AK SHE JES' Don' know how to hush \ \» _ (Released by The Bell Syn „ dlcate, Inc.) Trade Mark Reg. U. 8. Pat. Office) DOUBT CLEARS Britain Wi Lend-Leasi s --- Administrator Lane Says Agreement Still Binding Until President Declares End Of War; 200 Ships Are Involved WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—IIP)— Lend - Lease Administrator Chester T. Lane announced Friday night that Britain could continue using American Lend Lease merchant and naval ves sels until six months after Con gress or the President has de clared the war ended. Lane told a news conference President Truman’s proclama tion ending hostilities last week did not mean that Britain would have to return the Lend Lease ships by June 30 as some British officials feared. Lend - Lease administration records, he said, show that the United States transferred 416 vessels to Britain under Lend Lease although some of these ships may have been lost dur ing the war. Lane disclosed that the late President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill reached an agreement May 23, 1943, where by the United States would build most of the allied mer chant shipping, with Britain and other countries providing needed merchant seamen. Britain and other countries used the American ships in the common war effort without charge. But after Dec. 1, 1945, Britain agreed to pay existing charter rates for the vessels it continued to use. Lane said he could not esti mate off hand how many American merchant ships Brit ain still had but he said he knew it was over 200. NINE AIR EXPLORERS MISSING IN DESOLATE SOUTH POLE REGIONS WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — (IP) — The Navy disclosed Friday night that nine Naval air ex plorers are missing in the des olate region of the South Polar ice belt, four days overdue on a scouting flight from ti.e Navy’s sea-borne Antarctic ex pedition. First reports said only eight men were aboard the missing plane, a two-engined patrol bomber, but this was later found to be erroneous. Garbled radio communica tion blacked out reports on a widespread and developing search for the lost aircraft. A faint clicking, too low to be de ciphered, was the only contact late Friday between the Navy’s receiving station here an<j the expedition’s flagship far down at the bottom of the world. NCEA GROUP HOLDS UP PAY DECISION Committee Debates Three ■ Hours On Question Of Teacher Salaries RALEIGH, Jan. 3 — (£>)—’The Legislative committee of the N. C. Education association Friday de bated for more than three hours on the question of requesting the 1947 General assembly to grant teachers pay increases in excess of 20 per cent. At the conclusion of the session, the committee adjourned without making an announcement of its decision and prepared immediately to go into session with leaders of the United Forces For education, a group that has affiliated itself with' the NCEA in the movement for increased teachers’ salaries. It was understood that the legis lative committee had decided to increase its salary request because of increases in the cost of living but that it had been decided to confer with the leaders of the United forces before making any public announcement. It also was understood that the legislative committee was plan ning to meet again following the conference with the United Forces. The United Forces include the N. S. State Grange, the N. C. Farm bureau federation, the State Fede ration of Women’s clubs and the State Congress of Parents and teachers. . Several months ago, State lead ers of the NCEA and the United forces agreed to join with the State Board of education in pressing for a 20 per cent increase in the pay of school teachers. However, the NCEA reserves the right to ask for a greater increase if the cost of living should continue to increase. __ PIANO CONCERT PRESENTED HERE Miss Carlyle Seymour Pleases Audience At Re cital Last Night Miss Carlyle Seymour, who was presented by the Thursday Morn ing Music club in a piano recital in the Great Hall of St. James Parish House last night, gave an extraordinary performance in Schumann’s G minor Sonata. There was something more than digital dexterity and orthodox reading. There was discernment, which im plies a shade more than technical understanding. She made the sonata mean what Schumann intended it to mean, and that is not always easy, for more experienced artists, because Schumann is never obvious. The extraordinary part of her inter pretation is that Miss Seymour is a junior at tiollins College, not a senior, and not a “finished” pianist. There are still years of training and study ahead for the young woman, but she will go far in her career because she possess es this rare attribute * discern ment. The sonata was beautiful and on occasion dainty as old lace. Those who heard it will find it as haunt ing as lavendar. Miss Seymour opened her re cital with two of Bach’s choral pre ludes, one transcribed by Kusoni, the other by Lambert, and the fa miliar and always beautiful Toc cata in E minor. Following the sonata, she played a Chopin group, the F sharp major Impromptu, the E flat major Nocturne, and the F sharp minor Polonaise. With the Debussy Ballade and Ernest Bloch’s Visions et Prophet ies in the closing group, the recital threatened to end on a sombre note, and would have done so except that the final number was the F minor Impromptu of Gabriel Faure, which dances all over the keyboard and proved a welcome variation to what immediately preceded it. The Thursday Morning Music club gave Wilmington music lovers a fine New Year’s gift by inviting Miss Seymour to play to her “home folks,” and certainly Miss Seymour deserves the gratitude of all who were fortunate enough to attend her recital. — J. E. H. Mencken Wins BALTIMORE, Jan. 3.—(JP)—H. L. Mencken, author, newspaperman and connoisseur of the end product of malt and hops, has in his safe deposit box an iron-clad contract guaranteeing him two cases of Canadian ale monthly for the rest of his life. Under the contract completed by Cinema (Canada) Pictures, an Ontario brewery and Mencken, the film company gets rights to Mencken’s burlesque essay “History Of The Bathtub,” and the brewery is to ship him the ale. Sleepless Wonder Dies; His Home Graced No Bed TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 3 — (IP) — Albert Edmelare Herpin — Tren ton’s sleepless wonder who claim ed he never got a minute’s shut eye in his life — died Friday at Mercer hospital at the age of 95. Herpin lived alone in a small shack near a railroad siding and used a rocking chair in which to read while he rested. The shack had no bed, and the Rip Van Win kle in reverse would sometimes be come indignant at people who ex pressed disbelief in his story. Spurning many offers to appear on the radio or at freak shows because he said he had promised his mother never to capitalize on his sleeplessness, Herpin worked as a gardner. Once he took two jobs to show that he was capable of working 24 hours daily. Hospital physicians said Herpin had never been found asleep any of the five times he had been a pa tient here. Police of nearby Ewing township brought the sleepless wonder to Mercer hospital three days ago because he was apparent ly unable to get around. He did not sleep until he became unconscious Thursday. Herpin’s favorite tale was of the time in 1906 when four doctors were supposed to have conducted a vigil to check on his claim that he never slept. “The experiment was going along fine,’’ he would chuckle as tie puffed at his pipe, "until the doctors started falling asleep.’’ BILBO ST A TUS UNDECIDED AS SENA TE RECESSES AFTER SIX-HOUR DEBATE $3,350,000,000 TAX CUT SOUGHT i Republicans Offer House Drastic Bill Number One Measure 01 New Congress Seeks 20 Per Cent Income Slash $3oo,ooFceiling Democrats, Few GOP Mem* bers Definitely Opposed To Knutson Plan WASHINGTOnT Jan. 3_ (fl5)—Republicans offered as House Bill No. 1 of the new Congress Friday a measure to cut individual income taxes a total of $3,350,000,000. For most taxpayers 11 would mean a 20 per cent cut. Controversy broke out im mediately. Some Republicans as well as Democrats criti cized the measure. The op position cried for government economy, budget balancing and debt reduction, ahead of tax slash ing. The bill was offered bv Chair man Knutson (R-Minn) of the tax drafting House Ways and Means committee. It proposes a slash by! 20 per cen tin the tax load of all individual income less than $300, 000 annually, effective January 1, 1947. But, declaring that "in general, (Continued on Page Z, Col. 4) IRREGULARITIES HINTED IN BLADEN Evidence Gathered By SBI In Primary Probe To Go To Grand Jury RALEIGH, Jan. 3.—(JP)—Evid ence uncovered by SBI agents who investigated alleged irregularities in Democratic primaries last spring will be turned over to grand juries of Haywood and Bladen counties, Attorney General Harry McMullan reported to the State Board of Elections Friday. The probes had been kept secret and the announcement of their re sults came as a surprise here. Chairman W. T. Joyner of the elec tions board said that the Haywood investigation resulted from a com plaint made to Governor Cherry by Charles W. Edwards, Jr., of Lake Junaluska, who said that he represented a veterans’ ticket. McMullan submitted to the board a copy of the report of SBI agents J. W. Jessup and R. A. Allen of their probe in Haywood and com mented: “It appears that sufficient evid ence of vote-buying, disorders at (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) On Snow Blanketed Capitol Hill These Washington, D. C., youngsters are taking advantage of the six-inch blanket of snow that made tbe slopes of Capitol Flaza ideal for sleigh riding. The snow storm made driving conditions in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland, hazardous. (International) The Weather FORECAST North Carolina — Partly cloudy to cloudy Saturday; colder west and cen tral portions, occasional rain extreme eastern portion Saturday morning becom ing colder in afternoon; fair and colder Saturday night and Sunday. (By U. S. Weather) Meteorological data for the 84 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a m. 62; 7:30 a.m. 64; 1:30 p.m. 69; 7:30 p.m. 66. Maximum 72; Minimum 59; Mean 65; Normal 47. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 99; 7:30 a.m. 96; 1:30 p.m. 85; 7:30 p.m. 95. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — 0.67 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 7:11 a.m. 1:40 a.m. 7:27 p.m. 2:28 p.m. Masonboro Inlet _ 4:49 a m. 11:23 a.m. 5 :10 p.m. 10 :33 p.m. Sunrise 7:18; Sunset 5:16; Moonrise 2:50 p.m.; Moonset 5:38 a.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Friday, 11.2 feet. Boys Town Fire BOYS’ TOWN, Nebr., Jan. 3.— (U.R)-A fire Friday destroyed the Boys’ Town grade and high school, a five-storj building which was the original unit of the Rev. Edward J. Flanagan’s ,home for boys. Patrick J. Norton, an official of the school, said no one was in jured. He said the fire started in the basement, apparently from de fective wiring, and quickly en veloped the building. Along The Cape Fear HEAR YE, HEAR YE — His honor, R. Gregg Cherry, governor of the sovereign state of North Carolina, has given honor where honor is due. And honored was no other than one Jack Jackson Lee Aycock Zebulon Vance Cowie, better known to fishing enthusiast as Jack Cowie, creator and director of the Fishing Rodeo held here last fall. The proclamation, bearing the great seal of North Carolina, has been delivered to the same Mr. Cowie. Before this goes any farther per haps we should tell you the oc casion for such an imposingly of ficial document finding its way to the very banks of the Cape Fear from Raleigh. * * * * OFFICIAL NOW — The same Jack Jackson Lee Aycock Zebulon Vance Cowie is now an honorary Tar Heel. And for those who are not famil iar with the species perhaps we had better cite them the following pronouncement by Governor Cherry: WHEREAS, it has come to my attention that one Jack Cowie, visitor to our commonwealth, has offered adequate apologies for hav ing been born north of the Mason and Dixon line; and WHEREAS, there is further evi dence that he has learned the dif ference between roast pork and barbecue, he can ci->criminate be tween Smithiield ham and North Carolina country cured ham, is acquainted with the fundamental fact that gravy can be spread up on biscuit, that pot-likker is a food and not a beverage, and that a chittlin’s strut is not a dance but a source of protein; and * • » WHEREAS AGAIN—WHEREAS, we are reliably informed that the said visitors is adept in the use of our idioms, and in the practice of our customs, has been accepted as a kissing cousin in some of our foremost families, has proposed the Tar Heel Toast in an enthusias tic manner, and has learned to sing the state song acceptably, if not melodiously, can identify the state flags, and firmly believes that Andrew Jackson was born just a little north of the South Carolina line; and WHEREAS, he has confessed that the first Tea Party was held, (Continued on Page 2( Col. 2) - ■ \ *i PLANT RECEIVES * CPA PERMISSION Bottling Firm With Capital Stock Of $100,000 As sured City Approval of an applciation by John B. Hinnant, local contractor, for permission to erect a $10,000 millwork plant in Wilmington has been granted by the civilian prod uction Adminisrtation, according to an announcement by the Greens boro office of the agency last night. The building to be erected will be used for the manufacture of materials for new homes. Another industrial plant for Wil mington has been assured by the filing in Raleigh of a certificate of incorporation by the Spur Bottling company, Inc. The certificate authorized a capital stock of $100, 000, with $27,000 being subscribed by Hugh Pinson, James Pinson, Jr. and LeGrand Rodgers, al lof Wil mington. FIREWORKS BAN GAINS SUPPORT Heads Of Police And Fire Departments Here Back State Proposal A movement underway through out North Carolina to ban the manufacture, sale or use of fire works in the state gain some local support yesterday among county officials, with the concensus of opinion being that firecrackers and accompanying paraphanalia constituted a menace. Chief of Police Charles H. Ca3 teen asserted that fireworks were a menace to everyone using them, especially children, causing the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Chamber Divided On North^South L iries With Filibuster In Offing, Threats To Put Cloture In Effect Features Debate On Right Of Mississippian To Seat j- jan. 3—(UP)—A stubborn Senate divided mostly on North-South lines battled six hours Fri day over seating Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., and then recessed until Saturday with “The Man’s” status undecided, the chamber still not organized, and a filibuster in the offl ing. The gavel went down on the first day of the new Re publican controlled Senate at 6:02 P. M., after a session that began with a prayer and progressed rapidly through speech making, delaying tactics, parliamentary maneuvers, resolu 80TH CONGRESS AT A GLANCE By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate organization and swearing in of new members blocked by row over seating Bilbo; Southerners organize defense. House speedily organizes; Rep, Martin (R-Mass.), elect ed speaker 244 to 182, asks co operation; tax cut and labor bills introduced. Truman to deliver message in person Monday if Bilbo snarl is untangled in time; watches House session by tele vision. NEWSPRINT WILL REMAIN “TIGHT” Publishers To Get Little Re lief Before Summer, Agency Declares WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—(U.R)— Newsprint supplies will remain tight during the second quarter of 1947 and perhaps longer, the Com merce department said Friday. Canadian and U. S. mills already are operating at capacity and in some cases on a seven-day week. No increase is in prospect for another six months, the depart ment’s pulp and paper unit report ed. Department experts held out some hope, however, that Canadian imports could be increased by some 150,000 to 200,000 tons. The total import in 1946 from Canada and Newfoundland was about 3, 173,193 tons. Newsprint is being imported at a rate of about 300,000 tons a month. Increased Canadian im ports of 150,000 to 200,000 tons still would fall far short of meeting the demands of American publishers. The American Newspapers Pub lishers association estimated that for the first 11 months of 1946 con sumption was 4,000,000 tons. De partment experts estimated that the total for last year was 4,3$5, 000 tons. U. S. Production U. S. production, as estimated by the Newsprint Service bureau, a trade association, was about 65, 000 tons a month in 1946. The de partment estimated total domestic production last year at from 773, 000 to 778,000 tons. The only new U. S. mill expect ed to be in production will be in Texas, the pulp and newsprint ex perts reported. It plans a pro duction rate of 50,000 tons a year, but will not be operating until September. No immediate price Increase over the $85 a ton basic rate is expected, the experts said. New foundland producers, however, put into effect on Jan. 1 increases of $4 and $5 for the Southern publish ers who use the Newfoundland paper. Town Of Southport Seeks Relief Of Loan Payments Morning Star Washington Burea i WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — The town of Southport, N. C., which expanded its power plant in war time to provide current needed by the Navy’s patrol base at nearby Fort Caswell, Friday asked the Federal Works agency for relief from payments on the remainder of the $50,000 loan which -partially financed the expansion. R. I. Mintz attorney for the town, said Southport began paying $2,000 annually on the principal plus three per cent interest in 1944, when the Navy was buying up to six j thousand dollars’ worth of power | per year, but operations at Fort Caswell have diminished so great ly now that the sales are only about $1,500 annually. Southport also received a federal grant of $51,000 to help finance the plant expansion and spent some of its own funds on generators and other equipment, Mr. Mintz said. In response to his request for relief, the agency asked more de tailed facts and figures, which the attorney will supply within a month, he said. Mr. Mintz conferred with Rep resentative J. Bayard Clark of Fayetteville about the matter also. i* tions for and against the seating of Bilbo, attempts to swear in 36 new members, and threats of cloture (gag rule) if Southern Democrats attempt to filibuster. The chamber will meet again at noon Saturday with the dead lock still prevailing. The only gain, before the fireworks over Bilbo started, was the swearing in of Sen. Elect Raymond E. Baldwin, R. Conn. The session Saturday will find: 1. Bilbo still not permitted to take the oath of office for his third term. 2. The Republicans still unable to organize the chamber, and a retiring Democratic Senate sec retary still In the presidents ehair. 3. Southern “Seat Bilbo" Demo crats still not willing to yield ground despite a pair of roll call rebuffs and a threat from the Re publican leadership to Invoke clo ture If they continue to talk. Hard Battle A coalition of Northern Demo crats and Republican* wa* fight ing stubbornly with a wilful band of Southerners who have demand ed that Bilbo, etorm center of charges involving primary elec tion itimidation and acceptance of gifts from war contractors, be allowed to take hi* oath of office now. The Republicans want Bilbo de nied his seat until after the Senate Rules committee hag had a chance (Continued on Page J_ Col. I) | POLICE SEARCH RIVER FOR BODY Local Negro Believed Drowned After Fall From Boat Near Yards New Hanover county sheriff's officers were last night continuing the search for the body of Paul Bostic, Wilmington Negro, who is believed to have drowned after he was knocked reportedly from a boat in the Cape Fear river near gate 13 at the shipyard* yesterday after noon by J. B. Brown. Brown, 23-year-old resident of 920 South sixth street, reported to county officers that he and Bostic were argueing when the latter sud denly struck him. Brown said he then returned the glow and Bostic went overboard. The craft on which they were riding to work, the boat Sonny Boy, owned by Captain Harry Moore and operated as a ferry to trans port workers, then twice circled Hie spot where Bostic went down but no sign was found of the Negro. Brown is being held in the New Hanover county jail on a vagrancy charge pending a coroner’# to ques t. And So To Bed - % Very much disturbed was a > youngster waiting for the bus at Twentieth and Market streets. Despite his love for -bu# travel, he was alarmed over be ing “short-changed” on oer- | tain buses. At least that was his version as be explained it thus: “When you get on the East Wilmington bag they give yon a full nickie’s worth as they take you all the way round the long way. “But if you take the Carolina Place bus, you pay a nickle and then the bus takes a short cut. Really you get where you’re going before you’re ready I* get off,” he pointed out. And And So To Bed is in debted to Mrs. Andrew J, Howell, of 1918 Market street, for passing the above conver sation along to us, .jfc $ i
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